AN: Here's chapter seven, sorry it took a while to up date. My life had got busier since Christmas.

Hope you enjoy it please read and review.

Chapter seven:

"Mum, Mum wake up" Rose said shaking her mother awake.

"Rose, what is it, what's wrong?" Jackie replied waking up.

"Mum, this house it's no longer safe" Rose replied "We need to get everyone into the TARDIS"

"Right okay" Jackie said pulling the covers off her and climbing out the bed.
"That was easier than I thought" the Doctor's voice came from the door. He was leaning against the door frame, a small smile on his lips.

"What was?" Jackie asked looking at him as she pulled on her dressing gown.

"Convincing you that we need to get out of here" the Doctor replied.
"I think after nearly two years I'd of learned that when my daughter and her partner say something isn't safe, it means it's not safe" Jackie replied.

"Okay" the Doctor replied seeing that Jackie was deadly serious.

"Nah Josh will be the hard one to convince" Jackie said "Have you checked on Meg?"

"Yeah sorry, she woke up. She'll be fine for the moment" Rose said.
"Did you ever work out what was wrong with her?" Jackie asked pulling her dressing gown on.

"Look we'll explain later Mum, right now I need your help with Josh" Rose said.
"Yeah, course you do" Jackie said and with that left the room in a slight hurry.

"Rose" the Doctor said grabbing her arm as she was about to sweep past him as well.

"Yeah?" Rose replied looking at him.

"We'll sort this out right?" the Doctor asked looking like he needed the reassurance for once instead of her.
"Yeah of course we will" Rose said smiling at him "We always do."

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Rose sat on the edge of Meg's bed listening to the Doctor and Josh's on going fight about whether they should leave the house. Once the Doctor had explained about what was happening to Meg, Josh had lost his temper and refused to believe a word of it, and through all this the Doctor wouldn't give up, like usual.

That's what Rose liked about the Doctor; she liked the fact that he never lost hope. Never gave up, ever. She loved a lot , but that she will always admire, it was because of that, that she knew she was safe with him.

"And who are you Doctor, to tell me that my only daughters life is in danger" Josh said, he was loud when he wanted to be.

"Your right, of course your right, why should you trust a man that you've never met" the Doctor said.

"Oh finally your seeing my point of view" Josh replied back.

"Look Josh for once in your life will you listen!" Mo shouted getting her husbands attention.

"Why should I listen to a man that's lying through his teeth" Josh said trying not to lose his temper.

"And how do you know he's lying through his teeth?" Mo asked

"Because Mo, you obviously hadn't noticed the fact that they have somehow managed to get from Italy and France in one day" Josh said

"And how do you know we didn't do that?" the Doctor questioned.

"Believe it or not Doctor I know that's it's not humanely possible to get from Italy to France and then here into Britain all in one day" Josh replied harshly.

Rose heard a soft cough coming from behind her, she turned around and saw Meg looking at her, she looked worse than she had two minuets before.

"What's wrong?" Rose asked getting to her feet and coming round to where Meg was.

"That ghost it came again, just a minuet ago" Meg said.

"Where did she appear?" Rose asked anxious that Meg might faint again.

"There, she said do not obey him" Meg said "But it's so hard not too"

"Meg what going on, who mustn't you obey?" Rose asked knowing that they hadn't mentioned a thing to them. So if Meg knew about Hector she would be surprised.

"He's inside my head; he's draining my life energy. I can't stop him" Meg said louder this time than before. When she said this it managed to stop the argument from the three others, and got their attention.

"Help me Doctor, you're the only one who can" Meg said and the Doctor came over to her.

"Hold on" the Doctor said placing his hands on the side of Meg's head and closing his eyes. He stood there like that for a good five minuets, the room quiet intent on seeing what the Doctor was doing. But that silence was ended the moment the Doctor took his hands off Meg's forehead.

"Look, I'm sorry about all this it's hardly been a smooth Christmas. But I can tell you that Meg's life is in danger, unless we get out of this house" the Doctor said looking Josh straight in the eye.

"Josh" Mo said turning to her husband "We have to trust him"

"Who are you?" Josh asked.

"I'm the person who is trying to save your daughter's life. But you have to trust me and do as I say" the Doctor said.

Josh looked from his wife, to his daughter who seemed to be in a deep sleep. He could see that there was more to the Doctor than what they were saying.

"You ask me and the Doctor as many questions as you like later. But right now all that is important is Meg and her life" Rose said walking over to her uncle.

"You may not trust the Doctor, but you trust me. And I trust him, and I can tell you, he's not lying" Rose said and Josh could see the truth radiating from Rose's eyes.

"Fine" Josh said giving up for the moment.

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Rose was watching as the Doctor ran various tests on Meg, the others had gone to look around the TARDIS. Rose knew that they had plenty of questions inside their head, but had decided not to ask them.

"What happened to her?" Rose asked quietly. "What did you do to her?"

"Hector got inside her telepathically when that ghost appeared. I got him out of her" the Doctor said.

"Is that how he trapped their souls, by getting inside them telepathically?" Rose asked.
"Yeah" the Doctor replied. "He pushed them to the very back of their minds so they couldn't get out, then he sucked their souls out of them. Using the pearl of souls" the Doctor explained.

"What is the pearl of souls?" Rose asked.

"The pearl of souls was created to keep someone alive, when they should be dead. But you need to collect eleven souls for it to work. Once the user has those eleven souls then they become immortal" the Doctor explained. "But I thought it had been destroyed many years before even I was born"

"Then how come he's only got nine souls, you said he needed eleven" Rose said, then something occurred to her.

"Doctor?" Rose asked after a few minuets.

"Yeah?" he asked looking up from the machine.

"Who's Romana?" Rose asked and the Doctor looked away from her pain obvious in his eyes, only confirming her conclusion.

"You not the last time lord are you?" Rose said after a few minuets.

"No" the Doctor replied quietly, and sat down on a chair.
"There's two of you left, and that's who that ghost is and the woman in the painting, that you thought somehow looked familiar" Rose said moving in front of him. "That's what you meant when you said Hector was messing with you people as well as your family" Rose said. She could see this was tearing the Doctor to pieces. "And you thought she was dead, but then when you saw that painting you knew"

"I saw that painting and I realised she was a time lord. Then you had that dream and I realised that it was her. I didn't want to accept that it could have been her. Or that some dreams come true" the Doctor said "I travelled with her, along time ago now. We had an argument, didn't part on the best of terms. Then the time war happened and everyone died" the Doctor said "Or at least that's what I thought"

"I'm sorry" Rose said gently "I so sorry" Rose said pulling the Doctor into a tight hug that he obviously needed.

They stayed like that for a while, just embracing each other. Rose hadn't seen the Doctor quite so honest about his past before.

"Cup of tea?" Rose asked suddenly feeling very thirsty and he nodded.

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Meg woke up, she sat up and looked around. She didn't recognise anything in the room. She heard a little voice in the back of her head. "Come to me". She for some reason felt like this thing in the back of her head was bad, but then something happened and it was gone. All of a sudden she felt like she had to do this, as if it would take all of her problems away if she did it. She got up out of the bed she was lying in, and headed for the door.

She walked out of the blue box and headed for her house, where she lived. She headed back down towards the cellar and entered it.

She saw in distance a man, he was standing there holding something in his hands. His body glowing a light blue colour.

"Meg" the man said smiling at her, oh such a beautiful smile. She looked behind him and saw nine other women, one of them she recognised but she didn't know why. They looked as of they were trying to stop her, but couldn't get past something.

"Master" Meg replied to him.

"Come here and obey me" the man said to her. Meg looked at the man standing in front of her. She felt like she was dreaming like something like this shouldn't be happening. That she shouldn't trust him at all. But then she looked at him and all that anxiety disappeared, just as quickly as it had come. After all he did have a wonderful smile. And she began to walk towards him.

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"Oh a nice cup of tea always takes your troubles away, no matter where you are in the world" Rose said trying to lighten the mood a little bit.

"Yeah" the Doctor said smiling. "Mind you Banana Tea is very good" the Doctor said smiling at her.

"So I've heard" Rose replied smiling.

"Never go and have a cup of Banana tea in front of a load of monkeys, they might try to take it off you"

"Well I'll remember that if I meet a monkey" Rose said laughing at how random that comment had been.

"Well you can, I know a planet that has monkeys all over the place. I'll have to take you there" the Doctor said.
"Good because then you can explain to me what exactly, you fascination with bananas are" Rose said just as Mo walked in looking slightly anxious.

"Mo, what's the matter?" Rose asked.

"Meg's disappeared" Mo said "I was hoping that she might be in here with you, but she's not here"

"Have you checked the control room?" the Doctor asked standing up.

"Yeah she's not there" Mo said.

"Doctor she could be anywhere in the TARDIS." Rose said. "She it's extremely big"

"Yes I know Rose"

"Have you checked the gardens, the library, the-the oh I don't know, the swimming pool" Rose asked Mo and she shook her head.

"Yeah Rose, I really think that when a person has something inside there head their going to go swimming" the Doctor said. "But just in case she has had a mad idea like that, someone should check" the Doctor said looking at Mo and she nodded knowing exactly what the Doctor was talking about and set off.

"Right well I'll go and check the house" Rose said but the Doctor stopped her.

"No, I'll do that" the Doctor said.

"Okay I'll come with you then" Rose replied.

"No, Rose you can't" the Doctor said.

"Why not?" Rose asked.
"Because it's too dangerous" the Doctor said.

"I've seen danger before and that's never stopped me" Rose protested.

"Rose please don't make this harder than it already is" the Doctor said, he hated doing this to her but he had to know she was safe, unlike Romana. "I don't know what I'd do if something happened to you"

"But that's never stopped you before, why now" Rose asked and saw that the Doctor's face had darkened.

"Rose, listen to me. Hector is dangerous too dangerous and I want to know that at least someone I care for is safe. If something happens down there and I can't get back then I want to know that you're safe" the Doctor said seriously.
"Why do you think something will happen down there?" Rose asked.

"I don't know" the Doctor said "But I'm not taking any chances"

"Wait a minuet is this something to do with that dream of mine?" Rose asked but the Doctor refused to meet her eyes, which meant yes.

"You said that some dreams come true. Is that what you think, do you think my dream will come true?"

"I don't know, but I can't risk you getting hurt" the Doctor said his head shooting up to look Rose in the eye.

"But I wasn't the one who got hurt Doctor, you were" Rose said.

"I know" the Doctor said.

"If your going to get shot then I'm coming" Rose insisted. "If that happens then there won't be anyone else with you and that could kill you" Rose said

"I might not even get hurt" the Doctor replied taking hold of Rose's hand. "Look just let me do this" the Doctor said.

"Fine" Rose said reluctantly "But if something happens to you and you die-"

"Then I'll regenerate and I'll sort this out" the Doctor said calmly.

"Please don't" Rose said

"Look have you still got that necklace or did you leave it in the house?" the Doctor asked.

"I've got it here" Rose said pulling it out of her top.
"Do you remember what it means when it glows?" the Doctor asked.

"That- that someone from your planet is hurt" Rose said "But you said it didn't work like that anymore"

"Well I don't get hurt to often" the Doctor said "If something happens to me then it'll glow. Then you can come looking for me" the Doctor said "Come with me" the Doctor said and lead her into the TARDIS control room.

"If the necklace glows then press this red button, it'll bring you straight to me" the Doctor said showing her a red button. "Okay?"

"Okay" Rose said and they smiled at each other before the Doctor brought her into a hug.

"Doctor, if you regenerate I want you to know that I-" Rose said but the Doctor put his hand on her lips silencing her.

"Rose I promise you I won't regenerate. And don't tell me that, not yet anyway. Neither of us are ready to go from best friends to something completely different not yet" the Doctor said.

"But-" Rose said

"Don't not now" the Doctor said moving closer towards her despite what he had just said, so close that their heads were almost touching. "There will come a time when you can say that, but that time isn't now"
"Okay, just be careful" Rose pleaded.

"I will be I promise" the Doctor said and kissed Rose gently but at the same time passionately before he could stop himself.

"Was that a good bye kiss?" Rose asked trying not to grin like a Cheshire cat.

"It was a kiss of many things, but good bye isn't one of them" the Doctor said smiling at Rose for a few minuets then said "I'll see you later"

"Yeah you'd better" Rose said and the Doctor walked off to find Meg, just hoping that he wasn't too late.